Supreme Court notices to Centre and Assam Government over ULFA killings
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Central Government and to the Government of Assam seeking a report on ULFA activists killed between 1998 and 2000.
The notices were issued against a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a non-government organisation (NGO) that sought a probe into the killings.
The PIL was filed by Alok, a NGO, emphasising that innocents were killed by the security forces. A bench comprising Mr Justice A R Lakshmanan and Mr Justice Dalveer Bhandari issued notices after hearing the
petitioner's plea.
Citing the Kakopathar incidents in Upper Assam, where eight persons were killed in police firing and another in alleged Army custody, the banned ULFA has accused the government of "breaking" its commitment to the Peoples Consultative Group (PCG) to undertake confidence building measures.
Reacting to the Kakopathar killings, the ULFA through its mouthpiece "Freedom" criticised that the Centre was violating a clause of confidence building measure.
The Centre had agreed to take initiatives for confidence building
measures and also take up instances of human rights violations at the second round of meeting with the ULFA on February 7.
On the issue of 'sovereign Assam', the banned ULFA had lashed out the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) and its leadership and doubted its nexus with the Centre to subdue the outfit's demand for an independent Assam.
In a statement, e-mailed to the local media, the ULFA termed the AASU's stand that it was not in favour of a sovereign Assam as "dangerous" and alleged that the decision was not the consensus of the student body.
Four ministers had been deputed by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to tackle the situation in Upper
Assam areas in the aftermath of Kakopathar carnage.
Mr Gogoi has been put on the dock by the opposition for his failure to call on families of Kakopathar victims till date. The People's Committee for Peace Initiative in Assam had brought out a public rally in Tinsukia on February 15 protesting Kakopathar killings and human rights violations in the state by security forces.
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